Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health - NATO Science Series IV 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health, Budapest, Hungary, June 26-July 1 1999--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: What is Global and Regional Integrity? 1. The Global Integrity Project and the Ethics of Integrity; L. Westra. 2. The Coming Change in the Environmental Protection Paradigm; L. Ryszkowski. 3. Approaches to Ecological Integrity: Divergence, Convergence and Implementation; P. Miller. Part II: National Parks in Eastern Europe. 4. Ecosystem Integrity and Its Implementation in Eastern Siberia; I. Glazyrina, T. Strizhova. 5. The Regional Scope of Implementing Global Ecological Integrity: the Sumava Mountains; E. Cudlinova, et al. 6. Natural Transborder Parks: the Direction of Biodiversity Preservation in Romania; M. Patroescu, L. Rozylowicz. 7. State Parks - as a Model of Nature and Culture Protection and Sustainable Development; R. Kitoviene. Part III: How do we Measure Ecological Integrity? 8. Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ecological Integrity: Insights from an Ecosystem Approach; J. J. Kay, H. A. Regier. 9. Ecological Functions and Integrity: Approaches to Valuation; O. L. Loucks. 10. Rare Species Indicate Ecological Integrity: an Example of an Urban Nature Reserve Island; F. Samu, C. Szinetar. 11. Systems Modeling of Brazilian Sustainability with Emergy Flows Diagrams; P. Safonov, et al. 12. Ecological Functions and Socio-Economic Values of Critical Natural Capital as a Measure for Ecological Integrity and Environmental Health; R. De Groot, et al. Part IV: Human Health and Integrity. 13. Strategies for Assessing the Health Impacts of Global Environmental Change; A. J. McMichael, R. S. Kovats. 14. Environmental & Human Health Aspects of Burning Arsenic Reach Coal Ecology Restoring Issues; V. Bencko. 15. The Problem-Solving Approach in a Community-Lead Pollution Chronic Exposure Situation; I. S. Bocsan, et al. 16. Mothers and Mother Nature: Attachment, Detachment and Human Ecological Integrity; I. Lazar. 17. A Decisional System for the Ethical Evaluation of Animal Experiments; V. simkevičiene, S. Ulickiene. Part V: How do we Implement Integrity? 18. The Use of Existing Legal Tools to Protect Ecological Integrity; D. A. Brown. 19. A Behavioural Approach to Understand the Distinctive Influence of Environmental Instruments on Ecological Integrity; C. Gallez. 20. The Water Conflict in the Middle East: A Test Case for International Intervention; S. Karin-Frank. 21. Instruments for Management in Integral Environment Policy; I. Malakhov. 22. Design of Sustainable Development Strategy for a Region; V. Gurman, E. Ryumina. 23. Global Bioethics: a Suggested Distinction between Ethic and Morality; B. Chiarelli. 24. The Conception of Natural Goods in Economics; J. I. Toth. Part VI: Implementing Ecological Integrity in Agriculture and the City. 25. Agriculture, Food, Populations, Natural Resources and Ecological Integrity; D. Pimentel, C. A. Edwards. 26. A Human Ecological Assessment of Economic and Population Health; W. E. Rees. 27. Discourse of a New Alliance' between Neo-Classical Environmental Economics and Other Environmental Narr"Publisher Marketing: The concept of ecological integrity is used in environmental policy but is usually left undefined, the definition proposed by the Integrity Group focuses on a nature that has been impacted by human activity as little as possible, emphasizing and protecting its self-organizing capacities for life as a product of the natural history of ecosystems.

Contributor Bio:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Clifford Geometric Algebras in Multilinear Algebra and Non-Euclidean Geometries.- Geometric algebra Projective Geometries; Affine and other geometries; Affine Geometry of pseudo-euclidean space; Conformal Geometry and the Horosphere; References. Content-Based Information Retrieval by Group Theoretical Methods.- Introduction; Motivating Examples; General Concept; Fault Tolerance.- Applications, Prototypes, and Test Results; Related Work and Future Research; References.- Four Problems in Radar.-Introduction; Radar Fundamentals; Radar Waveforms; Signal Processing; Space-Time Adaptive Processing; Four Problems in Radar; Conclusions. Introduction to Generalized Classical and Quantum Signal and System Theories on Groups and Hypergroups.-Generalized classical signal/system theory on hypergroups; Generalized quantum signal/system theory on hypergroups; Conclusion; References. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras in Robotics.- Introduction -- Rigid Body Motions; Lie Groups; Finite Screw Motions; Mechanical Joints; Invisible Motion and Gripping; Forward Kinematics; Lie Algebra; The Adjoint Representation; The Exponential Map Derivatives of Exponentials; Jacobians; Concluding Remarks; References. Quantum/Classical Interface: a Geometric Approach from the Classical Side.- Introduction Paravector Space as Spacetime; Eigenspinors; Spin; Dirac Equation; Bell's Theorem; Qubits and Entanglement; Conclusions; References. PONS, Reed-Muller Codes, and Group Algebras.- Introduction; Analytic Theory of One-Dimensional PONS (Welti); Shapiro Sequences, Reed-Muller Codes, and Functional Equations; Group Algebras; Reformulation of Classical PONS; Group Algebra of Classical PONS; GroupAlgebra Convolution; Splitting Sequences; Historical Appendix on PONS; References. Clifford Algebras as a Unified Language.- Introduction; Clifford algebras as models of physical spaces; Clifford Algebras as Models of Perceptual Multicolor Spaces; Hypercomplex-Valued invariants of nD multicolor images; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Recent Progress and Applications in Group FFTs.-Introduction; Finite group FFTs; FFTs for compact groups; Noncompact groups; References. Group Filters and Image Processing.- Introduction: Classical Digital Signal Processing; Abelian Group DSP; Nonabelian Groups; Examples; Group Transforms; Group Filters; Line-like Images; Acknowledgments; References. A Geometric Algebra Approach to Some Problems of Robot Vision.- Introduction; Local Analysis of Multi-dimensional Signals; Knowledge Based Neural Computing; Acknowledgments; References. Group Theory in Radar and Signal Processing.- Introduction; How a Radar Works; Representations; Representations and Radar; Ambiguity Functions; The Wide Band Case; References. Geometry of Paravector Space with Applications to Relativistic Physics.- Clifford Algebras in Physics; Paravector Space as Spacetime; Interpretation; Eigenspinors; Maxwell's Equation; Conclusions; References. A Unified Approach to Fourier-Clifford-Prometheus Transforms- Introduction; New construction of classical and multiparametric Prometheus transforms; PONS associated with Abelian groups; Fast Fourier-Prometheus Transforms; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Fast Color Wavelet Transforms.- Introduction; Color images; Color Wavelet-Haar-Prometheus transforms; Edge detection and compression of color images; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References. Selected Problems; Various Authors.- Transformations of Euclidean Space and Clifford Geometric; Algebra; References; On the Distribution of Kloosterman Sums on Polynomials over Quaternions; References; Harmonic Sliding Analysis Problems; References; Spectral Analysis under Conditions of Uncertainty; A Canonical Basis for Maximal Tori of the Reductive Centrizer of a Nilpotent Element; References; 6 The Quantum Chaos Conjecture References; Four Problems in Radar; Topic Index; Author Index